The Joshua Generation
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4.3 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The documentary, Shiny Happy People, Dugger Family Secrets, was Amazon's biggest documentary |
| 0:08.5 | debut ever. |
| 0:09.5 | It's about the evangelical Christian family who were stars of TLC's 19 kids and counting. |
| 0:15.8 | Some things about the Duggers were already well known. |
| 0:17.9 | They were part of a movement we're having and then homeschooling many, many children was |
| 0:21.7 | encouraged, creating an army for God it was sometimes called. |
| 0:26.2 | What's well known was that the Duggers considered themselves and their kids part of something |
| 0:30.1 | called the Joshua Generation. |
| 0:32.5 | It sounds almost conspiratorial but these kids were raised to become influential in places |
| 0:36.9 | where influence mattered. |
| 0:38.7 | The goal was Christian homeschool graduates who would be US senators, who would be US presidents |
| 0:45.2 | and most importantly who would be US Supreme Court justices. |
| 0:50.4 | Coming up on today explained what is the Joshua generation and why are some evangelicals |
| 0:55.1 | turning their backs on it? |
| 1:01.1 | GSK believes innovation starts when you stop to listen. |
| 1:05.7 | That's why GSK and Veeve Health Care have partnered with the HIV community for decades |
| 1:11.3 | and developed medicines that better fit the lives of people living with HIV. |
| 1:16.0 | That's just one example of how GSK unites science, technology and talent to get ahead of |
| 1:22.7 | disease together. |
| 1:24.8 | It's today explained up in a well-kinned Christian Cobas Dumay is a historian and author |
| 1:42.5 | of the book Jesus and John Wayne. |
| 1:44.5 | She was featured in shiny happy people explaining things about the evangelical movement and |
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